Scroll shell output with mouse in tmux

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Published on 2010-11-12T14:02:16Z Indexed on 2012/10/24 17:05 UTC
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Mouse scrolling doesn't work in tmux the way it works when I run shell without tmux (in Gnome Terminal). It seems tmux sends mouse scroll events as if I pressed Up/Down keys. But I want it to scroll though the shell output history. Is there a way to make tmux work like this?

Note: I know how to scroll with keyboard (thanks to another question here).

Tried mouse scrolling in two versions of tmux:

0.8-5hardy1 (on Ubuntu Hardy)
1.3-1 (on Ubuntu Maverick)

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